General Knowledge 420

1. Which among the following is not correctly matched ? (famous personalities and nations)

Mark Carney – Canada

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – Brazil

J.T. Wang – China

Yukio Hatoyama – Japan

Salam Fayyad – Palestine

2. In the centrally sponsored AUWSP scheme, W stands for _______?

Workers

Women

Wildlife

Water

None of them

3. In which of the following North Eastern states of India inhabit the Nishi tribe ?

Manipur

Meghalaya

Arunachal Pradesh

Assam

Nagaland

4. Which among the following is the largest city of Canada?

Ottawa

Vancouver

Oslo

Toronto

5. Which of the following part of Indian Constitution resembles the standard-setting Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948?

None of them

Part IV

Part II

Part III

Part IVA

6. Recently (in year 2010) 97th Indian Science Congress was held at Thiruvanthapuram. Who among the following is known to initiate the Focal Theme in the Indian Science Congress celebrations?

Dr.M.S.Swaminathan

A P J Abdul Kalam

Dr.S.Bhagavantam

Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru

Prof.D.S. Kothari

7. Bring out the incorrectly matched pair:

All Matched Correctly

National parliament of Denmark – Folketing

National Assembly of Bhutan – Gyelyong Tshogdu

National legislative assembly of Spain – Cortes

Parliament of Norway – Storting

8. After China as the most populous country and India as second most populous country of the world, which of the following comes next ?

Pakistan

Indonesia

United States

Bangladesh

Brazil

9. Which among the following is commonly called as “Soft Loan Window ” of the World Bank?

International Development Association

B & C

International Finance Corporation

None of them

International Monetary Fund

10. In 2008 State Bank of India got approval to start operations in Singapore . This was a consequence of an agreement between India and Singapore to open up their financial sectors to each other. Latest in the series is ICICI bank which has got a green light from Singapore’s regulators to begin retail operations in that country. The approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore allows ICICI to open branches, take deposits, and give out loans like a local bank. In which year, the agreement to open up the financial sectors of each other was signed between India and Singapore?